Locke Wiggin

I need a new Drudge because the new Drudge sucks. I want something like the Old Drudge before it became liberal and anti-Trump. Where should I go?

Has the dementia progressed that far in that short of a time? Did the moderators give him the questions or treat him with kid gloves? I'm not going to say he did well in the debates, but he wasn't Dementia Joe up there.

The GOP is setting the bar way too low. He shows up, which is questionable, he clears the bar. Bad politics there.

Great layout. Big fan of Pate's work. The steak sandwich is really good.

I haven't played it lately, but I'd be shocked if it was anything other than in good shape.

It's news that they are actively trying to alter the governmental structure to achieve this goal under the guise of balance and fair play.

The death of RBG and the likely confirmation of ACB is just a ruse for Democrats. They’ve talked about packing the court, Puerto Rico/DC statehood, and abolishing the filibuster for a long time. They aren’t trying to manipulate the game while they have control of the rules, they are attempting to end the game.

On Pod Save America, Kate Kendell of Take Back the Court outlined the exact reasons for there position on these issues:

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What do you say to the argument that this will only lead to retaliation…?

… Why are they doing this in the first place? And the reason is they know they can’t win popular elections if they are fair. Republicans saw this 20 years ago. You know this data as well as I do. They know they can’t win with free and fair elections and without voter suppression. So beginning 10 years ago and even 20 years ago, they started laying out a plan for cheating and trying to game the system. So if we were to be lucky enough to take the Senate, keep the House, and have Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House, what we could then do is all the corrective actions. It is not just adding Justices to the Court. It is doing what the Brennan Center said: giving voting rights to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, re-enfranchising people who have lost the right to vote based on felony convictions… We correct all of the manifest injustices put in place to game the system in one direction, we get rid of all of those barriers and all of those hurdles. According to the Brennan Center, if you do all of that, you restore voting and add to the voting rolls 50 million voters. If that happens, Republicans as they are currently manifesting themselves with the highest level of toxicity and ideological purity, will never be able to be in a tit for tat or a tat for tit, whatever it is, position, because they will never again win a majority in the Senate and they will never again regain the White House unless they moderate themselves and their approach to how they want to govern.

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These tactics aren’t about “restoring order” or “restoring balance to the Court.” This is an excuse to take actions with a 51% majority to change the rules of the game to eliminate the competition. This is gerrymandering the country to prevent Republicans from ever gaining a majority. They aren’t scared about retribution, because they are taking steps to ensure that the GOP will never be in a position to enact retribution.

Rarely do you hear people say the quiet part out loud, but more recently, the Democrats just don’t seem to care. You used to have to walk a line, say something moderate, and then give a wink and a nod.

Between the BLM movement that wants to blow up the system because of alleged systematic racism and blowing up Constitutional norms because they don’t like the outcomes they’ve received, this country is on the precipice. If I said it once, I’ve said it 1,000 times: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE EVERYONE TROPHIES!

I would love to see them stick together and just refuse to confirm a justice.

So he agrees to appoint a woman as his VP and then agrees to appoint an AA female as a Justice. I'm not saying this is the equivalent of promising pizza everyday in the cafeteria, bc he can actually do what he is promising. But the sentiment is the same.

Why doesn't Trump put in 3 before January, regardless

They have producers in place reviewing rhetoric and stories to alleviate any bias. They are at least putting forth a good faith effort.

There is a growing market for that, a market that CNN, MSNBC, and the other MSM abondoned.

How in the world did we get from multiple debates in 2016 to one single debate that may or may not happen in 2020.

Debating isn't a great indicator of how someone will be as president, but it will at least shown if someone has the cognitive ability to do the job.